If I read The Sound and the Fury or Middlemarch, I'm filled with the aromas of either book, with past readings and relationships t...o the characters, with a whole continent of language and scenes, but the books don't frighten me. I can enter into their dream songs, and leave at my own will. But if I'm watching Casablanca on the wall, I'll let my eye slip past the phony details, the studio-bound streets, the laughable sense of a fabricated city, and drift into that dream of Humphrey Bogart and Rick's Cafe Americain, which exists outside any laws of physics, like the eternal dream of Hollywood itself, a little dopey, but with a power we can't resist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Before I built a wall I'd ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out,...And to whom I was like to give offense.Something there is that doesn't love a wall,That wants it down.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

... the Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the ...only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Flower in the crannied wall,I pluck you out of the crannies,...I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,Little flower--but if I could understandWhat you are, root and all, and all in all,I should know what God and man is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and turned the sea in...to dry land; and the waters were divided. The Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »